Timeline Assignment - 2006
Find the years the following the fifty events occurred and arrange them on a timeline. You will need to complete two assignments based on the events below.
The first assignment must be completed on Blackboard. After you have located the events below, Blackboard will present these events and ask you to provide the year each occurred. Be accurate! Verify and corroborate each date with a least two authoritative sources. You will receive one point for a correct answer and zero for an incorrect answer for a total of 50 points.
Due February 6, 2006, 12:00 PM
For the second assignment, select one of the fifty events listed below. Write a four-hundred word summary of that event and its importance in history. Consult the Assignments page on Blackboard for more information.
Due February 13, 2006, 12:00 PM
- Vice-President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev hold "kitchen debates."
- Illinois National Guard and Protestors clash at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
- President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
- FCC ends "Freeze" on new television station licenses
- Dumont network ceases operation
- Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
- President Bill Clinton signs Telecommunications Act
- President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Public Television Act
- World War II ends
- Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam
- Americans evacuate Saigon
- Brooklyn Dodgers move to Los Angeles
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- NASA established
- Time Inc. launches Home Box Office (HBO) in New York City
- Music Television (MTV) launched
- Discovery Channel launched
- NBC sells its "Blue" network to Edward J. Noble, who forms American Broadcasting Company
- Arthur Judson partners with Columbia Phonograph Company and forms Columbia Broadcasting System
- Radio Corporation of America launches National Broadcasting Company
- FCC chairman Mark Fowler calls television a "toaster with pictures."
- FCC chairman Newton Minow calls television a "vast wasteland"
- CBS cancels See It Now, featuring Edward R. Murrow
- Rolling Stone magazine begins publishing in San Francisco
- Apollo 11 becomes first manned spacecraft to land on the moon
- Congress mandates cable companies to sell its services to cable competitors, such as DBS, under the Cable Act
- Disney begins producing Disneyland USA to air on ABC
- Disney purchases ABC/Capital Cities
- Jury in Simi Valley, California acquits Stacey Koon, Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, and Theodore Brisenio of excessive force charges against Rodney King
- John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon stage the "Great Debates"
- Vice-Presidential candidate Richard Milhaus Nixon makes "Checkers Speech"
- Final episode of M*A*S*H earns a 60.2 rating
- Guiding Light debuts on CBS-TV
- Martin Luther King gives speech at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- William Levitt builds first suburban planned community, Levittown, in Nassau County, New York
- Fairness Doctrine dissolved
- Richard Milhaus Nixon reigns the Presidency of the United States
- Ronald Reagan inagurated President of the United States
- FCC mandates Financial Interest and Syndication Rules (Fin-Syn) and Prime-Time Access Rule (PTAR)
- Cosby Show begins airing on NBC
- AOL acquires Time Warner
- The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization publishes report Many Voices, One World (McBride Report)
- UPN and WB television networks launched
- Dr. Timothy Leary testifies at US Senate hearings on LSD
- Sony develops Betamax format
- Fox begins broadcasting as a network
- President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act, the most comprehensive civil rights legislation since the end of the Civil War
- CNN launched
- A.C. Nielsen begins using People Meters
- Soviets launch Sputnik